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ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The percentage of physicians using electronic medical records has doubled over the past two years, according to Doug Fridsma, MD, director of the Office of Standards and Interoperability of the Office of the National Coordinator, according to a Health Imaging…

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This article was written by Tamara Wagner, BS, CPC, Vice President of Coding and Diana Hilliard, JD, Manager Managed Care Contracts for National Medical Billing Services. The AMA recently issued an opinion that all procedures whose description involves time (i.e.…

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that health insurance premium increase in Missouri have been deemed unreasonable under the rate review authority granted by PPACA, according to a St. Louis American report.

In an editorial in Government Health IT, Mary Mosquera, senior editor, posited that division down party lines may be destroying the future of health insurance exchanges for many states.

This past February, healthcare prices rose only 1.8 percent from the month before, the lowest rate of healthcare inflation since April 1998, according to a report from the Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending (pdf).

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